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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
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Tuesday, November 17Happy International Students' Day! It was on this date, 70 years ago, that the Nazis stormed the University of Prague to stomp on students protesting the killing of medical student Jan Opletal, who had been protesting the Nazi occupation. The Nazis went on to execute nine student leaders and sent more than 1,200 students to concentration camps. Moreover, they closed all Czech universities and colleges. If you're a Sikh, you join a quasi-military religious community called the Khalsa by sharing a drink of sweetened water called amrit. Guru Gobind Singh ordered the Khalsa to wear the five kakkars, including a dagger called the kirpan and unshorn hair, called kes. Both of these have created controversy in Canada, which has a large Sikh community. The unshorn hair conflicted with helmet laws, while the dagger conflicted with zero-tolerance anti-weapon rules. In addition to being 1980s toys, the Masters of the Universe were also the nickname for what people in a Tom Wolfe book? A) Female undergrads B) Hells Angels bikers C) U.S.
D) Wall Street brokers Previous answer: A camel has a lump of fat. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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